Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations : Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898

Daniel S. Margolies

ISBN 10: 0820330922 / ISBN 13: 9780820330921

Published by Longleaf On Behalf Of Univ Of Georgia Press Jun 2011, 2011

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Neuware - In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and transborder abduction and interdiction. In this sweeping history of the underpinnings of American empire, Daniel S. Margolies offers a new frame of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in U.S. foreign relations during an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness. Whether it was in the Mexican borderlands or in other hot spots around the globe, Margolies shows that American policy responded to disputes over jurisdiction by defining the space of law on the basis of a strident unilateralism. Especially significant and contested were extradition regimes and the exceptions carved within them. Extradition of fugitives reflected critical questions of sovereignty and the role of the state in foreign affair during the run-up to overseas empire in 1898. Using extradition as a critical lens, Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations examines the rich embeddedness of questions of sovereignty, territoriality, legal spatiality, and citizenship and shows that U.S. hegemonic power was constructed in significant part in the spaces of law, not simply through war or trade.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations : Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898
• Publisher: Longleaf On Behalf Of Univ Of Georgia Press Jun 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820330922
• ISBN 13: 9780820330921
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 29D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 29 millimeters depth
• Weight: 786 grams

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Synopsis

In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and transborder abduction and interdiction. In this sweeping history of the underpinnings of American empire, Daniel S. Margolies offers a new frame of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in U.S. foreign relations during an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness. Whether it was in the Mexican borderlands or in other hot spots around the globe, Margolies shows that American policy responded to disputes over jurisdiction by defining the space of law on the basis of a strident unilateralism. Especially significant and contested were extradition regimes and the exceptions carved within them. Extradition of fugitives reflected critical questions of sovereignty and the role of the state in foreign affair during the run-up to overseas empire in 1898. Using extradition as a critical lens, Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations examines the rich embeddedness of questions of sovereignty, territoriality, legal spatiality, and citizenship and shows that U.S. hegemonic power was constructed in significant part in the spaces of law, not simply through war or trade.

About the Author

DANIEL S. MARGOLIES is a professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization.